Auch wir fanden den im Berlinale-Wettbewerb laufenden „Rage“ von Sally Potter prätentiös und nicht wirklich gelungen, mögen aber diese schönen Worte des Hollywood Reporter über die Pottersche Polemik gegen das Modebusiness noch lieber:
„Sally Potter’s Berlin competition film „Rage“ shows that no matter how shallow, pretentious, self-regarding and irrelevant the fashion industry may be, there will always be a filmmaker who is more so.
The british writer and director has taken a bad idea for a radio play and tarted it up with highly stylized video that is supposed to be the work of a kid using a mobile phone camera.
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Boxoffice will be limited to members of the filmmaker’s family, if that.
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Given complete rubbish to say and with such witless direction, the actors contribute uniformly the worst performances of their careers.
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Many years ago, Yoko Ono made a picture in which she had people of all ages and stripes take their pants off and walk on a treadmill while she trained a motion picture camera on their naked buttocks. The entire film was a series of buttocks in motion and compared to Potter’s „Rage“ it was an absolute masterpiece.“
(Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter)
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